The Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1947 was conducted on 18 May 1947 to elect members to the Landtag, the state legislature of Rhineland-Palatinate, Allied-occupied Germany. |- |colspan=15| |- ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" width=325px colspan=2|Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=75px |Vote % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=75px |Seats |- | width=5px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | Christian Democratic Union | style="text-align:right;" | 47.2 | style="text-align:right;" | 48 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | Social Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;" | 34.3 | style="text-align:right;" | 34 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | Free Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;" | 9.8 | style="text-align:right;" | 11 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | Communist Party of Germany | style="text-align:right;" | 8.7 | style="text-align:right;" | 8 |- style="background: #E9E9E9" ! style="text-align:left;" colspan=2| Total | style="text-align:right;" | 100.0 | 101 |- | colspan=5 style="text-align:left;" | Source: parties-and-elections.de |} 1947 1947 elections in Germany